Cleland Sees Good Chance Administration Will Name Economist to FCC
It wouldn’t be a surprise if the next Republican FCC commissioner nominated by President Donald Trump were trained as an economist, given Chairman Ajit Pai’s emphasis on “promoting more and better economic analysis as part of FCC policy making, in…
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order to justify FCC deregulation based on the competitive facts and economic merits,” emailed Scott Cleland, chairman of NetCompetition. Industry officials said the most likely choice for the open Republican slot is a female economist (see 1704040057). “The previous FCC was accurately characterized by a previous FCC economist as an ‘economics free zone’ because the only way it could logically reach its political conclusions was to ensure there was no economic analysis of market power, competitiveness of markets, costs vs. benefits, or private investment cases,” Cleland said.